MTA New York City Subway : Lefferts Blvd Bound R44 A Train @ 14th Street

Seen here is a train of R44s operating on the A to Lefferts Blvd arriving and departing from 14th Street Station.

[@JustJamalNichols]

memories man, these cars were the symbol for the A line

[@mr_khan715]

i love the r44s the door chime is hot and the sound is the best!

[@dorf33]

ah yes, the transistors whining. gotta be one of the things i most miss about the older fleet

[@Caitsith810]

Coincidence, I was meeting up with a friend at the station. The whole R44 leaving the A thing to me, thats the "Gotta see it to believe it" type status in my view.

[@Abman24]

Memories truly miss these cars they were awesome

[@trainsgod1042]

N.J Transit Railfan 2004 why? they are not that different from a R46

[@physetermacrocephalus9986]

@@trainsgod1042 Except that the R44 can hit 90 mph

[@CircleAnimations_Official]

@@physetermacrocephalus9986 but it shakes the whole under ground

[@trackwerkOG]

Interesting, this was the unit preserved at the transit museum. Damn I miss these lol

[@greghuang2314]

Awesome sounds!

[@psychicfriendfreadbear6025]

those are some fucking big MTA logos

[@davidng2336]

Last car is now part of the Transit Museum. Those bigass logos got replaced with the smaller ones that's now present on the sides. It's still sad that they didn't do as well as the R46, but it's understandable that the materials used weren't that great.

[@PeruvianPotato]

I think I actually went on a R44 when I was a kid because I remember the huge MTA logo as well as the unique white stripe

[@DatamasterCorporation]

I miss hearing this door chime, its very spooky sounding

[@andrewcampbell5190]

Y was she running on the local track instead of on the Express track

[@huehehaha]

life did

[@kitsunefaye1661]

It's late nights; her sister, Callisto, is sleeping. Andromeda takes over her twin sister’s role overnight.

[@BroadwayNexp]

nice video!

[@BottomLin3Op]

Does your cam have Auto Focus?

[@cheshire8821]

Some r44s have big ass logos because in their production they didn’t have the circled bolted logos, so they just patched logos on it as you see on 5240

[@Sensa_Productions]

0:37 that is one big logo

[@Vxllain]

Yeah, i thought that was the LIRR logo for a second.

[@teslamodels2283]

Lol

[@williamtecuapacho7730]

Yeah i saw it

[@zaki.aka.bostic99]

I miss the r44s

[@nightmareproductions8166]

But is it the R44s the same think as R46s just saying

[@nyctransitrailfan]

@@theplushydogo3295 They could've just stayed on the A line for faster express service and the R46 go to the SIR

[@toxicrepstan1897]

@@nyctransitrailfan they couldn’t, the car body’s were rotting on the r44s

[@Caitsith810]

Yes sir.

[@Elevatorelectricgate]

The R44 is a combination of R40 slant and R46.

[@Jaskaran_S]

9 years later we still only have r44 models and r32 in the a line

[@Georgejoyrider]

is the A Train running Local at this time

[@nanotechmom]

Agreed.

[@Abman24]

NoodleHead Boi me too

[@andydiaz697]

Why is it on the local track?

[@danedwardbenosa22]

The back R44 car has a museum number, It is number #5240

[@BxRailfanJRP]

Did all R44's usually make that whining sound? Or was it just this one?

[@Caitsith810]

A lot of them did(I think all of them did honestly). A lot of the St. Louis Car Company built cars did this. The R40 fleet were also notorious for that sound, and some of the R42s as well.

[@CyanTheStrategist]

@@Caitsith810 R42s didn’t really make that sound

[@Caitsith810]

Yes they did. 4840-4949 used to do those sounds before they were retired, along with the 4500s and 4600s. The ones that survived the mass retirement, didn't.

[@Letthedragonconsumeyou]

R40S & R44

[@Vlance213]

How can you tell the R44 and R46 apart? They look the same to me!

[@Caitsith810]

Number series, the band that's on the sides of the cars, the airbrake, the motors, the bigger logos on the sides of the cars.

[@omarmccleary3038]

Do R44s howl?

[@antglizzy7720]

Omar McCleary yes

[@CyanTheStrategist]

I just realized that when the doors open and close they make that whining sound. Just shows how badly they needed to go.

[@Caitsith810]

It's not the doors making that sound, its the motors. The R38s, R40s and some of the overhaul R42s made that sound too.

[@CyanTheStrategist]

@@Caitsith810ahhhh ok, thanks for confirming

[@ChoboUnjeon]

Are these doors motorized?

[@OnTheRailsNYC]

The logo is humongous lol.

[@raulparedes9284]

I saw kind of werd new york city subway logo And it's look like lirr

[@starwolf720]

I agree with you .

[@supermarionathan1426]

Why can’t the R44 still run on the A line I mean the R46 is still running on the A line today so why can’t the R44 I mean the R44 and R46 are twin brothers

[@Caitsith810]

They're not the same. R44s had carbon steel frames that rotted and rusted much more progressively, causing issues with the body and the structural integrity of the cars. They all had to be retired all at once.

[@zaki.aka.bostic99]

I wish the r44 was still here and have never got scraped

[@juandilone3905]

They sill had it On the SIR untell 2021 to be scraped by R211

[@jaylenstukes7063]

It literally looks exactly like the r46

[@Caitsith810]

Well yeah, that's beacuse the R46 came after the R44...

[@JonathanChan212]

Too loud, I still like R46 better.

[@nyctransitrailfan]

I like the R44 because they had the same sound like the R68A. R46 has that deep low Sound. It so bad and makes the R46 suck. They were really bad on the R but now they are cool running on the N/W lines

[@BxJRP]

That's cap. The more loud the better.